Date: 23/11/1999

No: 87/H/99

 

 

Urgent Appeal : To Save the People of Arabian Peninsula

from the Arbitrary Arrests

 

It is clear that the Saudi Interior Ministry is determined to follow the terrorist policy and carries out the arrests without Justification or reasons violating the Islamic and international laws and norms.

On 11/12/1999 the members of al-Mabahith al-`Amma in al-Dammam city broke into the house of the citizen Abdul Ghani al-Hammoud a 38 – year – old, a domestic employee in al-Sammam. The action was carried out in a barbaric way without Judicial warrant or informing his family the reasons behind his arrest.

 

It is worth mentioning that al-Hammuod was detained previously on 17/06/1997 at his job location in al-Khobar town. His house was raided and searched thoroughly and his private possessions were confiscated. He has been suffering of the torture results since  his release last year till his arrest yesterday. Al-Hammoud was rejected to several kinds of psychological and physical torture inside the Saudi prisons during the period of the detention.

 

On one hand, the General Investigations (al-Mabahith al-`Amma) in Ihsaa has called the supervisors of the so-called (Centers of Guidance and preachment) and warned them that they should not let the preachers from outside Ihsaa to preach in their canters. That measure was displayed by the Regime to force pressure on the religious scholars and the religious activities that did not follow the Regime’s laws or its religious establishment   which was established to serve the Regime’s interests and to justify the Regime’s oppression and persecution against the people of Arabian peninsula.

 

We raise our appeal for all the Islamic personalities the Islamic centers, the human rights organizations and the freemen all over the world to spare no efforts to save the victims of Saudi absolutism.

 

It is worth to point out that there are hundreds of scholars and citizens still held in custody for years and their fate is unknown and the Regime has banned their relatives and families to visit them.